(34 quotes found)
“Put silk on a goat and it is still a goat”
Irish Sayings
“You can't make a silk purse from a sows ear”
American Proverb
“Once a guy starts wearing silk pajamas it's hard to get up early”
Eddie Arcaro
“I don't like silk underwear. They don't do the job, you know?”
Matt LeBlanc
“It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.”
Washington Irving
“A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.”
Alec Guinness
“I'll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities”
Samuel Johnson
“One of the low on whom assurance sits / As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.”
T.S. Eliot
“The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.”
Norman R. Augustine
“She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.”
Bible
